Author Paul Davies

I began my career in journalism at the now defunct, pre-digital Smash Hits magazine, which was situated in London's Carnaby Street. After learning the ropes, I washed up at Vox Magazine, essentially the NME'S monthly magazine, as the Internet arrived into our lives. Thereon, I eventually graduated onto Q Magazine when people still treasured the magazine that they bought.
My journalistic career since has been on newspapers at The Times, The Independent/i newspaper, Daily & Sunday Express and, ofcourse, National Rock Review.

November 2nd sees the release of a superb, new 6-disc boxed set encapsulating legendary English rock-band Mott the Hoople’s recorded output for Island Records, to whom they were signed, between 1969 and 1971.
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Virtuoso guitarist and legendary songwriter of bittersweet ballads, a jocular Thompson promised tonight's reverential Richmond punters that his show would be fun...mostly. And didn't disappoint.
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As the last man standing (or should that be sitting) and fittingly final letter in Prog Supergroup ELP, Carl Palmer is preserving the legacy of this much-loved band by fronting his own trio's choicest, cherry-p...

As well as being the biggest band in the world, The Rolling Stones are also the biggest champions of the blues, so who better to curate a compilation in collaboration with BMG and Universal, of the music that i...

John Hiatt classily harked back to a golden, fertile period of US singer/songwriters by bringing his own creative heft to the craft tonight at Under The Bridge. A craft which he has carefully honed ov...

Blue as a word has a deep contradiction at its heart. As an adjective, it is the epitome of cool or a deep well of sorrow. As a colour, it contains a spectrum of shades which your average rock fan wears with pa...